Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 19.

CITY BEST IS REDUCE Wonderful Showing Ma in Mayor Tecpie’s Annua Report to City Council. THE TOTAL IS $46,0( As Compared to $129,0( Seven Years Ago—Mayor Favors City Prison. .Mayor s annual report to the con: cil of the city of Decatur, Ind., fro: January 1, 1912, to January 1, 191, I deem it my duty to make an a: nual report to you of the receipt* an expenditures of the city of Decat for the year 1912. anil make such am gestione as I may think best therefore, submit the following 1 naucial statement to you: Indebtedness of City Jan. 1, 1912. Waterworks bonds outstandin * $ 1000.0 C.etunding bonds 1897 OOOOu Refunding bonds 1906 20000.0 North Ward school building 1,0,1,18 4000.0 Refunding bonds 1909 1523.0 first National bank orders.. 819" Total for year 1912554372.9 Receipts for Year 1912. t’ash on hand Jan. 1521148.7 General fund 28760.1 Electric light 21831.1 Waterworks 3877.1 Sinking fund 7176.1 Old order fund 1587.7 .Miscellaneous fund 8520.9 Total receipts for year.... 592901.9 Disbursements for Year 1912. General fund $23863.9 Electric light 23375.8' Waterworks 2060.5* Waterworks bond and int... 2060.5 Sinking fund 6217.9' Fire fund { 150.0* Old orders 1515.2: Miscellaneous, streets and sewers 9805.9( Cash in treas., Jan. 1, ’13.. 19943.4. *Total disbursements for the year 1912 $92901.9 Total Indebtedness of City, Januarj 1, 1913, Made Up of the Following Item*. Refunding bonds. 1897 $ 9000.01 Refunding bonds, 1906 20000.0 North Ward school building bonds 31100.04 Refunding bonds, 1909 14000.00 Total indebtedness of city •lan. 1, 1913 $46000.00 The city reduced her bonded Indebtedness during, the year. $8,372.97. it is further my duty to make such recommendations to you as I may deem for the best interests of the city. Inasmuch as the city has no place to care for her prisoners before they hro tried and committed to Jail. I would recommend that the city procure a small strip of ground at the rear of the city building and erect ihereon a suitable building for a prison, on the ground floor, and an office for the city engineer on second floor. Hl of which could be heated from the llty building. Inasmuch as the city is now payng from $1,500 to $2,000 per year to her coal handled on dray* from die railroad trn<-ks tn the waterworks plant, and inasmuch as all hl* expense can be avoided by n fery small outlay. I would recoinnend to the council that they build in electric car track from the waterro*ks plant .on Indiana street west » the Grand Rapids railroad trail:, nd that the city council purchase a tnall motor car to haul the coal cars ••■k and forth from the railroad ta>ks to the waterworks plant I would hereby recommend that the iuncll have the ordinances of the Ity revised. Respectfully submitted, this 21st iy of January, 1913. JtTDRON W. TEEI’LE. Mayor. ( NOTICE TO BEN HURS. All members are requested to be ’■"ant at their hall not Friday cv <<Thore -Will ha-frtst'nllhflen " r Neer* and buaiiMtaa .Importance, f order of CtllKF .

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WHAT WILL BE DONE. fhero are some things that naturally strike a person of a humorous turn of mind as funny. Across the St. Marys river, east, on the north side of the road, where' the lands usually roll away, free, high and dry, with promises of a pleasant stroll : long the bank, risetj a tree on which is nalted a-sign board: "$5.00 line for tresspassing.” The tree is usually igh and dry, but at present its top, ils well as the sign just escapes the rise and swell of the waves of the swollen river which has overflowed J for rods and rods around. Wonder what they will do with the water for tresspassing? - o : THE LEGISLATURE Blue Sky” Law to Protect it , Investor Will Have Hearing Thursday Night. line SENATE BILL 105 AGAIN If — Widowed Mothers’ Pension Bill Introduced—Smoking "■ in House, Not in Senate. (Mi W (United Press Service.) Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 22— (Special 83 3 Daily Democrat)—“Blue sky" bills — (protect the investor, are scheduled 9. >r a public hearing here tomorrow • Thursday) night. 78 A “blue sky” law is designed to jl trovide for the phblic an investiga1. .on of the property, books, papers, 1! asiness methods and affairs of any 14 mpany, domestic or foreign, whose 9" oek is offered for sale within the ate, and for the supervision and filiation of such- companies. State jj i national banks, building and loan » 0 mociations, real estate mortgage 10 «pinies, trust companies and corjq )rations nor for profit are not asU irted by the law. )n "The permit is not a guarantee that ... a» ir.» intent is a sure thing,” said J M I Miley, bank commissioner of l(| as “It is a notiae that the ( , c®i'' t ' is at least being handled £ iu- st ) upon a business basis, and unable prospect of success.” 13 ladiananolto, Ind., Jan. 22—(Special tol .ii y Democrat) —"Senate Hill No. 1 amou* in the 1911 legislature : r ore of the hottest fights of that sh- on, will be introduced again this jur, it '.as stated today. . The bill provides that no foreign 0 corporation may do anything in Indktia which it is hot permitted to do by th" laws of the state in which it . or. nixed, nor do anything which , thf law s of Indiana do not permit a corporation organixed here to do. A h pem ful lobby defeated the measure y inlMl. , ■ | .. p •* bdlai i-'olis, Ind. Jan 22—Widowpj moih'-rs’ pension*, like the Missotri !»w, will be proposed in a bill j | tl tative Miederlch of Evan*v ' soon introduce In the state h lerf':" * p Penatana will not be prot \ld«! for mothers whose husbands ( |VI , ,i rind them or who have b *n 'i' orted, as Miederich fears this Wl i'ii i ,r age desertion and di- ’ , ,' nalona would be provided 1 t \, bl ’•'!! only for worthy widows '« th ■’ 'inn nnd wives of man con|r the state lienal Institutions. * Udi Ila, s«<*-. Jan - 22- (Ipeclnl . pi" mocrat)—A »Pc<-< h for evp ' t , r occasion has been pre ' L r .'i Bernard Shively of Marlon. „i. ,i< Ims introduced more bills ■ 1,,, H f other legislator, excejfl, per- ’ ( s ntaenberg, of Now Albttnv. I>i. It i dveljr second term in the gm.,! -'g la permitted In the house I tn i.' oo< d In the senate. I.lmiten"nl... nor William O’Neill hns dis-cour»ire-1 smoking so persistant ly withou’ milking nny rules thnt the have no desire to encountor his f o * n nnrt ln,|u, K’’ th ® w “'* 4 *” Lcrtdori and ante-rooms, when they t hey must Former Lteutennnt'governor Hall permitted smoking. CHILDREN’S GUARDIANS. There will be a called meefng of th,, board of chlldrnh's -gunr'nahs Thursday afteraoon- at ,2tM aG.tbe library. I

JACK THE PEEPER Has Again Made His Ap-pearance-Annual Report of His Wanderings. IS CORROBORATED This Time 5y Tracks in the Snow—Toes Point Towards the Windows. The annual report of the various kinds of “Jacks” that wander abroad during the still night air, has again come to notice. This time he appeared in the north part of the city and takes the form of a "Jack the Peeper.” The rumor is corroborated this time by very apparent tracks in the snow. These have appeared beneath the windows of several homes of prominent families and the toes of the tracks point toward the windows. The “peeper" himself has also been seen several times by families in various neighborhoods of the north part of the city, where his actions, as he watches the houses and tries to peer into the windows, attract much attention. He was first noticed several evenings ago by a man of the house in the north part. Not much was thought of the fellow, until his stay lengthened into two hours. The man of the house then became suspicious and goling to the door called to him and askled why he was watching about the place. The fellow answered that he was waiting for h<s girl, whom he said in a house nearby. Suspicions were allayed somewhat for the I time being, but when the report came ’that a peeper was seen near another ' nearby home, and still another, there ' were good reasons to believe that a "chronic peeper" was abroad in the land. Under the window of one of the | houses in the neighborhood, the snow, bore unmistakable evidences of foot-| prints of alien persons, and while ■ the peeper was not seen there, there I is good reason to believe that he had. visited that spot, for the intention of | looking into the window. w I WED LAST NIGHT Arthur Closs and Miss Goldie Biggs Quietly Mar- , ried at Parsonage of REFORMED CHURCH Will Make Home in Fort Wayne Where Groom is Cigar Maker. A very quiet wedding was solemnize<l Tuesday evening at 8:30 o’clock at,the German Reformed church by the pastor, the Rev. L. C. Hessen, who united the lives of Mr. Arthur I ('loss and Miss Goldie Higgs, two ' well known young people. The couple were attended only by a friend, Miss Flossie Ford, who witnessed the ceremony. The groom Is a son of Jacob Closs, Jr., of this city, and is a cigar-maker by trade, having been employed In Fort Wayne for some time. The b ride Is the eldest daughter of Rural Mall Carrier and Mrs. William Biggs. lof this city. She Is quite prominent In.music circle!, having served as pl'nnlst for a city orchestra. For some |limo she has been employed nt the Waring, glove factory. Tlte young couple will make their boflie In Fort Wayne, o- ... - - — MORRISES BUY ANOTHER. Morris A- Comimny of Bluffton, comprised of John A. and George. Morris, have bo light another five nnd ten cent store, which now rnakas elglit In thirr string. The eighth Is the store nt Hartford Ciy, which they purchased from C. B. Iwirrlmer. a Son In-law of J. A. Morris. Mr. Tatrrimer has planned Io embark In another businoM. The Morris company now owns stores located resiM-ctlve-|y >ln Bluffton, Columbia Ofty, New Casilti, Hlwood, Portland, Decatur, Hartford City, all In Indiana, and one at Hillsdale, Mich.

Decattrr, Indiana. Wednesday Evening, January 22, 1913.

“MY CORA” GIVES IN And Partakes of a Dinner of "Jail Grub.” Mrs. Cora Lee, wife of John Lee, finally surrendered Tuesday in her resolution against partaking of jail brub and at noon she accepted the dinner taken to her cell by a jail attache, She said that she was not very hungry, and ate only lightly of the tray of eatables taken to her. This made the second meal for her since Thursday noon of last week. A cousin took her dinner to .he jail Sunday. Mrs. has done no further talking and she and her husband have neither made further disclosures. She has broken down and wept several times. John Lee is reported to show Httle worry since his wife was placed in jail and eats and sleeps well.—Bluffton News. QUIET IN CAMP Os Erie Double Trackers at Magley But Officers Will Keep Watch. AGAINST THREATS Made by Discharged Boss Two Skip Out After Getting Clothes. From the camp of the Erie doubletrack workers -at Magley, where the Hot occurred last week, come echoes ■of still more trouble pending, and the sheriff and his deputy are holding themselves in readiness to be called to the scene at any time. The trouble started last week among the Italian laiborers, when the Interpreter or boss, Charles Ross, was discharged for failure to get his workmen on the scene on time. He Incited a riot, it is said, among the i others, and nine were brought here (for trial. Six were fined and went to I jail, as they were not able to pay, but I Ross was let go. The company took |up the matter and paid the fines of j the six imprisoned here, from their i wages due them, so that they could Ibe released from jail and return to .work. Two of the men, however, when their fines were paid, had no balance left them on their wages. They then applied to the commissary camp for an outfit of clothing, consisting of shoes, overalls. etc., amounting to some five or six dollars apiece, and the man in charge of the commissary, thinking that they wanted the clothing to go back to work, and that he could collect the money from their wages, let them have the outfit. That was the last seen of these two men, but the four others who had money due them, are still at work aa faithfully as though nothing had ever vome up to mar the serenity of the camp. Officers along the way were notified- of the fleeing men and a sharp watch will be kept for them. Charles Ross, the discharged boss, or interpreter, made a threat that If a man would be gotten to work in his place, he would return and kill him. No one has yet been secured, but the superintendent of the construction gang, Pat Durkins. Is attending to Ross’s work, as well as his' own. Caro will b® taken, however, to see that Ross does not attempt to carry out his threat, and should he do so the officers here will be hot on his trail. — i-r. ■ o- — INDIANA HEALTH REPORT. 333 More Death* In December, 191.’, Than In Same Month In 1911. There were 338 more deaths In Indiana tn December, 1912, than In th» same month of the previous year. The state board of health completed Its report Monday. The total deaths were 3,115. Huntington nnd Rennselaer had no dentils. Pneumonia, With 322, leads In the causes; tuberculosis. 284; smallpox, 1; diphtheria. 77; scarlet fever, 19; and measles, 3. Os blj-th* 2,120 were boys, 2,034 girls. Daviess eotinty hiid the largest birthrate aud Franklin the lowest. — —■ —— CONSCIENCE HONEY. C. A. Arnold of Bluffton was pleasantly surprised Tuesday morning when ho received a chock for ssu from a Portland man who hud owed him for twenty eight years It was while In the hub block business at Monroe twenty-eight years ago that the debt was contracted.

VETERAN IS DEAD A. A. Mason of Ceylon Called After IHness of Five Years’ Duration. THE GENEVA NEWS Chas. Reichelderfer Badly Bruised in Accident— Mrs. Acker Better. Geneva, Ind., Jan. 22—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A. A. Mason, veteran of the civil war, pioneer of this section of the county, and one of the well known citizens, died at his home in Ceylon at 8:30 o’clock Tuesday j morning, after an illness of five years. | He was seventy-four years old and was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, coming to this county In 1856. For a number of years he has lived a retlr-, ed life. iy> was married three times and la survived by a wife, six sons and two daughters. Three sons and one daughter live in Oregon and arrangements for the funeral have been postponed awaiting news from them. The services will be held in the U. B. church here, but probably not for several days. Mr. Mason enlisted in the army in August, 1861 and was discharged in August, 1865, serving four ( I years. j Charles Reicheldlefer, well known citizen here was badly bruised In an | accident which ocurred Tuesday. He | was loading a gin pole on a wagon at I his barn on Line street, when the ipole flew around and struck him on I the back of the head. H" was thrown i w-ith great force and smfered severe 1 : brusies about the face and head. He ■ jis resting easy today and will be able ! Ito look after business affairs in a i few days. Word has been received from Mrs. i Samuel Acker who is spending the winter at New Mexico, that she is improving in health, having gained nine pounds. The news is 'lndeed cheering to the family and the many freinds here. YOUNG BOY IN JAIL' Fifteen Year Old Robert Eley Indicted by Grand Jury on I — A SERIOUS CHARGE Assault and Battery Wi*h Criminal Intent on Mere Babe. . Robert Eley, a flfteen-year-old school boy of the city, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Eley, residing on Nile lick street, was arrested Tuesday night by Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly, on a warrant Issued from the circuit court on a grand jury charge of assault ami battery with criminal Intent. alleged Victim of the bov was Maltese Sunday, six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sunday, who reside on Niblick Street ami are neighbor* of the Kleys, the alleg-. ed offense occurring, It Is said. O< -. tober 18, 1912. The boy’s Itond was fixed at SSOO.1 and falling to give It. he was taken I to jail to await proceedings. The ted wns only fifteen years of age |n«t ’ Deceml>er 20. and Is small for hte age ■ Ute islbt r Is a laborer of the city and Is employ' d nt the hoop mill .— f — —-—— , A YOUNG PEOPLES CHORUS. The young people of the Presbyterian ohnrch haw organized a chorus which one Sunday evening ehch month will sing al the regular services. The organization was completed last Sunday afternoon and Iho chorus ls composed of. the Sunday school classes taught by Mrs. Reavers, Mrs. tx>wer. Mr D. B. Erwin and Mra. Hubbard. They will render special music nnd arc arranging to make the fhoni* a complete auoceaa. The first service' In which they take part will be given I in about two weeks.

(JUDGE WOULD SPANK ELOPERS. St. Ixtuis, Mo.. Jan. 22 When elopers visit Clayton, St. Cha ■ es or Alton to get marrlngo licetu • the recorder’s clerk should give them spankings Inctead of licensee." said Judge Hugo Grimes, the otb' >■ day at the close of a state judicial onl'erence. "Tlierc are too many < idren getting married," he added. The law should be more rigidly <■ orced and It should bo made more I’.cult for children to rush Into matrii iOny.” :Th(> conference decided to > .unmend to the legislature a la vlilch the guilty party In a dlvor< ease shall not bo permitted to marry within a year after a decree I: -ranted. ABOUT THE MCK Mrs. J. W. Jeffrey Taken to the Lutheran Hospital for Operation. TO BE THURSDAY I Nurse for the Thieme Boy Leaves—Mrs. Jas. Sp de Getting Better. Mrs. John W. Jeffrey left this morning for Fort Wayne, where she I will enter the Lutheran hospital and ' tomorrow morning will undergo an operation for what is thought to bo appendicitis and gall stones. She ihas been ailing for two years or more. The operation will be performed by a Fort Wayne physician, assisted by her local physician. Mrs. Jeffrey’s daughter, Miss BesHe, is a stu!dent in the nurses' training class of (the Lutheran hospital. Mrs. Jeffrey was accompanied by her son, Harry. Clarence Magner, who was so unfortunate as to have one of his hands mangled a few weeks ago, is again afflicted, undergoing a siege o’ pneumonia. He is a brother of Mrs. Tilden Lister. i Mrs. James Spade, a patient at the St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne, for | a week or so, since an operation, ia {getting better steadily. it wII be some time before she can be removed jto her home. Miss Helm, of Kendallville, n tra lied nurse in attendance 'on Fr<'d Thieme, Jr., fourteen year old >en of Mr, and Mrs. Fred Tbietne, of Union .township. It was thought could be discharged today, the lad's condition being such that it was thought a nurse would not be needed longer. The boy I has lieen Hl nine weeks nnd three days (during wich time a nurse was conIstnntly in attendance, three diffennt 'ones being on the case as It was necessary for one to relieve the other He was oi>*rated upon for a»>pendicltls and gnll stones, and is now nh'e Ifo sit up for an hour or so a day His ■ constitution is said to be a nmark--1 ably strong one, else he could mt nave withstood the long siege. Tb are holies for bis ultimate full recovery. Miss Emma Ijiutzenhete" and Mrs. Janies Gauze of Wlltehl" Ohio, changed cars here this morning enroute to Fort Wayne to call •' M-s. .Grace Acker of Willshire, v o Is a 'patient at the St, Joseph 1 ■ > tnl. she was <>|M-rat»d upon three ne -ka I ago and has IMOB In a very rlou* condition. she «ns formei ly Mtes Grace Morehead of Wills!' >. the . wife of James Acker, of I’l msant Mills. ; BROTHER VERY ILL , William Frnuhlger recelvral word I Tuesday from hte brother, Phl’l’’, who It nt ML Clemons, Mich, whore ho hna been taking trontment -«r the Inst week for rheumatism, that Ms condition Is very serious, nnd ihut he should cotne at once, Mr Frnuhlger hna been sick a long time with rheumatism and It was with th» hope of recovering ths* he entered upon the treatment at Mt. Clemens. - ■■■■ini —O in ■ UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBtErVES. My - sun,, Rud. whul uturkn on a niisopapur sex It’d bo n relief on the social horizon if some uv the folks a* a pnrts»uld Rat uplcii up t>« lr <bwte nnd g*r Mm,' InstgAd o’ /"a* n tele hour they aU departed wtehin the | host and hostess many more ‘ sich happy okashuns.”

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ACCEPTED BIDS Council Accepts Offers of Banks for Depositing the City's Money. RESERVOIR PLANS Drawn by Mr. Gillig Presented—Referred to Waterworks Committee. j The meeting of the city council, held Tuesday evening at their quarters, opened with the reading of the minutes of the last session, and were approved as read. The next thing In order and which was one of the most important topics of the meeting, was the reading of the annual report of ihe mayor for the year 1912. It showed that the City was decreasing its debt very 'rapidly. Thv city's indebtedness was jdecreased $8,372.97 during the year 1912. On January sth, this year, the .city paid off $3,000 of the $9,000 wortli (Os bonds outstanding, leaving the debt now $43,000. The council intends to pay off $3,000 worth of these bonds in the near future as the city has plenty of money on hand. Petition for macadamizing Oak and Indiana streets were then brought up and referred to the street and sewer committee, u|>on which they will report at the next meeting. | The jietition for the Sether sewer, which would commence in the center of the alley, six feet west of the northwest corner of inlot number 42, in citizen’s second addition, city nf Decatur, then running south in the center of the alley 162 feet to Mei--1 or- r.trei t, then east and along Meibeta street for 268 feet to the alley running north and south between Dirkes A- Walnut streets, then crossing Meitiers street on the south and terminating in the man hole of the Christen sewer, the length of the entire sewer to be 475 feet, then ,camq up. At the suggestion of the 'city attorney, the city surveyor was given notice to draw a map of the entire territory of the property owner, , who would likely drain Into the sewer, so it could be decided whether it was a local, general or district sewer. The fire chief was then ordered to give notice to the owners of the buildings now occupied by the Morris A- Company ilv<» and ton cent store, and the Ben Knappe saloon, of the defective flue between these two buildings. Plans for the proposed new reservoir to be built where the one now stands at the city water works plant, wore shown to the council. If the city obtains a newer am! larger reservoir the insurance companies will decrease their rate of insurance in the city. The plans were drawn by Mr. Gillig of this city. It would hold not less than 200,<*00 gallons. This was referred back to the waterworks cummittee, who will look after plana and specifications. The board of finance then made Its report, which wn>, as follows: ‘ Thnt the First National bank and Old Adams county bank had ri-ceived notice of making bide for the tie posttory of the city’s funds. A. motion to have this spread of record wns then in order and carried. The First National bank's bid was that It wou'd rets |ve not more than s3o,oflfi of the city's funds, and to pay them two p«r cent Interest, dally, ns the balance always varies from one day to another. The Old Aslams County bank's bld ‘wo* the same, exert* that they would not reelve more tbnb $15,000. Amo .tlon was then m”du to make the banks a depository for the city’s ( money, and cnrrlrul. The amount to tr deposited in < cl) will be divided according to their capital nnd surplus. The Interest received during *ho past two years from those deposits are as follows • Old Adams County i bank, *wo years, 1179.40; from Fire* i National, two years, $1«0«6. The council then allowed the following claims, nnd a motion to adjourn car ried: Consolidation Coal C0,.5439 59 i Westinghouse Elec Mfg. Co.. «.«• > WcllaTnrgo Express Co T«» Waterworks pay roll I° 4fi i Ind Elec. Appliance Co 2 -M • U Hammond > W. J. Ardthold. Trees • n " i Kirsch. Sellemeyer A Rons Co. 38.10 fCenrtemvt on ’‘ago 2)